Industry News

As an outcome from a review of Australia’s export legislation in 2015, the Department of Agriculture, Water and Environment (DAWE) have published the Consultation Draft Export Control (Organic Goods) Rules 2020.....

Regional Australia is set to benefit today as the Australian Government gets on with the job of building national wide drought resilience.....

Emergency works are nearing completion on parts of Queensland’s road network, after bushfires and monsoonal flooding impacted about 10,990 kilometres of the state network during the 2019-20 disaster season.....

Minister for Agriculture David Littleproud has today announced Dr Michele Allan as the Wine Australia Chair commencing on 4 July 2020 for three years.....

The Australian Government is extending the availability of the Farm Household Allowance (FHA) relief payment for three months, providing $2.1 million to eligible farmers and their families.....

Media Release: 26 June 2020 Federal funding to ensure the North Australia & Rangelands Fire Information (NAFI) service’s 2020/21 operation. NAFI provides near real time fire tracking data for land managers, Indigenous communities managing their country, cattle producers, and savanna fire management projects under the Emissions Reduction Fund. Website recorded more than one million hits....

Media Release: 26 June 2020 The Get Ready Queensland Challenge, a new educational game to help Queensland children and their families prepare for future disasters and severe weather, is now available online. The initiative is funded under joint Commonwealth-Queensland Disaster Recovery Funding Arrangements (DRFA) through the Community Recovery Fund, established in the wake of the....

The Australian Government is spending $36 million to support agricultural show societies recover from the effects of COVID-19, ensuring they can continue after the pandemic.....